San Diego Zoo

Joan B. Kroc's Monkey Trails and Forest Tales is the naturalistic home to more than 30 species of African and Asian birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, some of the world's most exotic and endangered wildlife.

The San Diego Zoo has had a love affair with giant pandas ever since two of the black-and-white bears came to visit in 1987. Absolutely Apes provides a lush, naturalistic environment where arboreal orangutans and siamangs can climb, swing, and live in the same terrain as they would in the wild. You can see swamp monkeys play "grab-the-tail" with spotted-necked otters, groom them, and occasionally even hitch a quick ride on the otters' backs as they swim by!

With its natural landscape of cascading waterfalls, open meadow, and climbing areas, Gorilla Tropics provides these vegetarian giants with a healthy living environment that adds to their well-being. Polar Bear under waterThis exhibit brings the Arctic tundra south to San Diego, with Siberian reindeer, Pallas' cats, northern birds, and native plants, along with polar bears. The focal point of the exhibit is, naturally, the Plunge. The Owens Rain Forest Aviary offers bird lovers an up-close look at more than 200 feathered friends representing 60 species and about 180 birds.

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